SharePoint

While creating queries with Power BI Desktop and also from within Excel, one thing had me stumped: When trying to query a particular SharePoint 2010 site, I would get an error. “OData: The feed’s metadata document appears to be invalid.” Other SharePoint sites in the same site collection offered their lists just fine. I started [...]

I just came across this question in sharepoint.stackexchange.com. When a user visits a SharePoint site, they are presented with a splash screen and need to accept the policy before they can proceed. Upon subsequent visits, the splash screen does not show, because SharePoint will remember the user. PirateEric outlined a possible solution: Use a SharePoint [...]

A few months ago I clicked a bookmarked link to an MSDN article about setting up the development environment for SharePoint 2010. Here is the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx To my amazement, I found that the article now contains content about setting up the development environment for SharePoint 2013. I tried to navigate to the same tree [...]

The other day, I had this error when I tried to point a Content by Query Web Part (CQWP) to a list on a sub site. I clicked the + sign in the tree view to open a sub site so I could see its lists, but what I saw instead was: “There was an [...]

In SharePoint, any custom list will have a default column called “Title”. This column will have the edit menu attached to it when it is shown in a List View. The edit menu is also referred to as the “Edit Control Box” or ECB. The Title column can be renamed if another column name is [...]

You may have used Word field codes before to conditionally show document properties in a Word document. With the new Document Properties that are inserted via Insert > Quick Parts > Document Properties, evaluating if a metadata field is empty is a bit more tricky. Read here how to do it. cheers, teylyn

Mega Menus are a hot topic in current user interfaces. There are many JavaScript and jQuery tools out on the interweb that provide the JS code to present those Mega Menus in an appealing fashion. All these solutions use hard-wired html that hold the nested UL and LI items for the menu, though. Within SharePoint, [...]

In SharePoint 2010 it is easy to create custom color themes to jazz up a site, although trying out different color ideas may take a while, since it takes SharePoint some time to save, apply and render a new theme. Not good if you quickly want to flick through a few ideas. Using Office 2010, [...]

While working on an Infopath 2010 form to be used in one of the SharePoint 2010 sites, I came across two challenges. End users will enter a number in a field, where values between 0 and 100 are allowed, in increments of 0.5. For example 11 or 22.5 or 65.0 are OK, but not 0.3 [...]

This should be easy-peasy for anyone who has their html under control. If you develop a site that will move through different environments (i.e Dev/Test/Prod domains), make sure that the links you use are relative to the site root and not absolute paths to the domain. Example at hand: The SharePoint site image was set [...]